Sonic artist Bobby Bird aka Higher Intelligence Agency will give an immersive live surround sound performance of his composition Watt’s Orbit, created from the sounds and rhythms of James Watt’s steam driven beam engines, recorded at Papplewick Pumping Station, Crofton Beam Engines, The London Museum of Steam and Water, and Thinktank Birmingham.

In residence

Bobby Bird will be ‘in residence’ at Vivid Projects between 27th June – 8th July 2019, developing Watt’s Orbit as a multi-spacial sound installation work suitable for gallery and other spaces. Music students and other interested parties will be able to hear the work in progress and discuss the project with the artist by prior arrangement, and the installation will be open to the public during the second week, on days tbc.

The second performance of Watt’s Orbit, an immersive multi speaker sound performance by Bobby Bird, will take place on September 23d at St Mary’s Church Great Bedwyn, nr Marlborough in Wiltshire. This will coincide with a steaming weekend at nearby Crofton Beam Engines where the 200 year old Bolton & Watts engine which features in the composition, can be viewed before the concert.
More info & Tickets available from wattsorbit.org

]]>headphonerecordsWatt’s Orbithttps://bobbybirds.wordpress.com/2016/09/30/watts-orbit/
Fri, 30 Sep 2016 16:55:25 +0000http://bobbybirds.wordpress.com/?p=629A new work premiered Oct 2016, which will continue to be developed during 2017/2018 and toured in 2019, the year of Watt’s bicentenary.
website : wattsorbit.org
twitter #WattsOrbit

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headphonerecordswatts-orbit-flyer-frontwatts-orbit-flyer-backabout-the-artistHarmonograph Buildhttps://bobbybirds.wordpress.com/2015/03/28/harmonograph-build/
Sat, 28 Mar 2015 11:29:08 +0000http://bobbybirds.wordpress.com/?p=591Worked as lead artist/facilitator with a group of home educated children to design and build this Harmonograph – an instrument invented in Victorian times which uses pendulums /gravity to draw graphical representations of the harmonic series: